It's so fast! Feels great
One thing that had always caused me issues was how slowly the Splinterlands crypto game website's pages would change. Because that happens constantly, it really burned me out of the game. I've barely played. But today, something magical happened. After changing my DNS resolver from my standard ISP to Cloudfare's, everything Splinterlands loads blazing fast now!
Damnit, I've just played 40 matches within 20 minutes. That would have been impossible before even if I kept running into people who would instantly submit their teams, because of how long it would take to change from the team creation screen to battle screen and the back to the menu. 5 minutes would turn into multiple eternities.
So if you haven't yet, I urge you, change your DNS resolver. Stop using your default ISP resolver, which is usually so crappy, it collects data from you. That's right, using it or even Google's is terrible for your privacy. Right now, I may be using Cloudfare's, but I am switching to a premium DNS for like 2 bucks a month. That's NextDNS. I think it's very affordable and it's great that I can test it for a single month only. However, it does have a free plan you can test at full speed.
Honestly? I wanted to try Quad9, which seems awesome and fully free, but it doesn't have a cluster in my country, so I sadly let it go.
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Changing the DNS helps a lot.
Another way to make it go a little bit faster is to go to your "tools" section here in Peakd, run a "node benchmark" analysis, and then when you find which node is the fastest, then you apply it to your hivechain wallet as well (under the "preferences" section, it will ask you which RPC node you'd prefer to run). Good to know about the DNS preferences though too, I'll have to do that as well; every extra bit of speed means a ton lately, seeing as the big Splinterlands boom has definitely caused a strain on servers/etc (understandably so - kind of hard to prepare for a sudden boom, lol)
that might work for peakd, but logging in directly into splinterlands.com with your posting key, without using keychain, actually achieves the fastest result. great tip tho, I'll try that! I do use keychain on a few of the splinterlands accounts
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Yeah that can obviously happen that you might already be running on the fastest RPC node...I only changed mine once to a node that was only a little bit quicker, and I tried running another benchmark to see if any of the others were faster like a week later, but ended up getting the same result as you- the api.hive.blog node was/is the fastest one that I can run on...I just know that one or two people had mentioned that little trick back when splinterlands was like really slow & laggy a week or two ago. & because I do use hive keychain extension on my splinterlands account though, so it did have some effect at first..albeit very minimal. Always worth a shot though..🤷♂
Sorry I couldn't help out more!
actually, changing RPC nodes is useful very often, because the api.hive.blog node does get laggy sometimes. but I usually pick a random one from the list so knowing what is the 2nd / 3rd best RPC are is very good
Oh nice, that's definitely good to know for future reference then. I wasn't 100% sure what else that's useful for aside from splinterlands tbh.
Great info.
I've never thought about this.
I'm in a holiday home and the internet is much worse making it hard to play.
I'll see if changing DNS resolver makes a difference.
either of the 3 I mention in this post should work brilliantly
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